Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

DigiTimes Predicts Apple's First New Products of 2018 Could Debut Starting in March Like Last Year

pentidoes said:
I wish they would stop doing this yearly-cycle and focus on reliability and dependability of their products. They are creating themselves the mess they're in. iOS is buggy because there are too many devices. It is not tought-through in ease of use, because they push themselves every year. This is Apple, they can take a year off - granted, in case of the Mac Pro, they did it for years - the next iteration must be a diamond.
Click to expand...
I'm not saying there is a need for new or redesigned products every year but updated internals are a must. At the price they're selling the devices they should at least include the latest chips.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ener Ji, martyjmclean, RandomDSdevel and 3 others
chucker23n1 said:
I doubt that. Marzipan, if it ships at all, is more likely to be improvements to make AppKit more UIKit-compatible, to wrap it (like UXKit), or to replace it altogether. I don’t see why it would have anything at all to do with CPU architecture, given that UIKit already runs on x86 and always has (cf. iOS Simulator).
[doublepost=1517840316][/doublepost]
Click to expand...
You are right they can always make a emulation layer to run the apps, like when we moved from PowerPC to Intel, we had universal apps. Though the only problem is Intel hasnt given a release date for Cannon Lake. Do you think it would be first announced in an Apple event?
 
argentum47 said:
Not sure why it needs to be obsolete when they have up-to-date Non-TB 13" in their lineup.
Click to expand...

citysnaps said:
OK... So you're not into cpu/gpu/ram/ssd/keyboard updates, apparently feeling it would still be "obsolete."

What exactly are you looking for?
Click to expand...

I mean, it is obsolete because its the pre-2016 design. Its literally the base 2014 MBP that was left there as a "cheaper" option to compensate the higher price of the 2016/2017 generation. Just as Apple left the non-retina MBP for some time after the retina models were introduced.

So as such, that laptop is not going to get any updates since the design is EOL. I guess it will just get dropped and replaced by a 256GB TB-version, potentially with a slower GPU.
 
  • Like
Reactions: martyjmclean, citysnaps and Glmnet1
chucker23n1 said:
I still feel like MR should launch a trackrecord.macrumors.com, where folks like DigiTimes, Ming-Chi Kuo, Gene Mueller, Mark Gurman, etc. get introduced with their affiliations, their past predictions, etc.
Click to expand...

Yeah and also have what those predictions are. Some are so obvious that they're not even worth adding to the record.

Like those predictions about a MacBook Pro with a Retina screen after the iPhone 4 had been released for some time. I mean... duh, anybody here could have told you that.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ener Ji and RandomDSdevel
Isn't the first new apple product of the year set to debut in four days? I don't know if MR needs to change the title of the article, Digitimes has no idea what they're talking about, or apple again delayed the release of Homepod (or all three).
 
  • Like
Reactions: RandomDSdevel
Face ID Mac and iPad please. Also on my new Mac you can keep the Touch Bar, but give it a real escape key. Also bring back the short left/right arrow keys. And make the keyboard dust proof so I don't have to carry around a can of compressed air.
 
  • Like
Reactions: RandomDSdevel
Please make this happen-

iPhone-SE-Plus-concept-phone-curved-labs-3.jpg
 
  • Like
Reactions: Icaras, Niklas_nick, TimSHB and 3 others
silent updates maybe to a few things like the 12" MacBook specs, but then again there is a rumour that Apple will add a 13" MacBook to the line up and remove the MacBook Air, if this is true i could see Apple either holding a March or April event to announce along with a few other things OR they may just wait until WWDC like last year and announce a lot of updates.
 
  • Like
Reactions: RandomDSdevel and Niklas_nick
Makes since. Sams Club has the iPad 10.5" 256GB model on sale for $150 off.
 
leman said:
I mean, it is obsolete because its the pre-2016 design. Its literally the base 2014 MBP that was left there as a "cheaper" option to compensate the higher price of the 2016/2017 generation. Just as Apple left the non-retina MBP for some time after the retina models were introduced.

So as such, that laptop is not going to get any updates since the design is EOL. I guess it will just get dropped and replaced by a 256GB TB-version, potentially with a slower GPU.
Click to expand...

My bad... I was off a year thinking it was the newer MBP.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back